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Client Zero

ShakenAI Labs

Building the agency that builds agencies

The agency's own website became the first client engagement — proving the process, templating every deliverable, and establishing the blueprint every future project follows.

2 days

Build time

Gold

Service tier

4

Agents

6

Tools

The Challenge

ShakenAI Labs is building a two-pronged business: operating as an AI agency for paying clients, and selling complete agency setups as a product. The website needed to serve both audiences — explaining what the agency does while functioning as the documented proof of the Gold-tier Agency-in-a-Box product.

  • 1. Explain the AI agency model to potential clients — not a SaaS, not a freelancer
  • 2. Showcase three service tiers with clear features, pricing, and targeting
  • 3. Capture qualified leads through a contact form → Honcho memory pipeline
  • 4. Document every step as a reusable template for future client engagements

The Approach

Rather than building a demo site, we treated ShakenAI Labs as a real client — running the full Gold-tier engagement pipeline end-to-end. Every document, task, and handoff was recorded so future clients receive the exact same process.

Agent Team

📋

PM Agent

Scoped the entire engagement — wrote the intake brief, task breakdown, and handoff protocols. Every deliverable in the site traces back to the pm-scope.md document.

💻

Web Developer

Scaffolded the Astro + Tailwind project and built all 5 pages with responsive design, dark theme, and Tailwind utility classes. Self-validated against W3C and Lighthouse.

☁️

Cloudflare Manager

Configured shakenai.work DNS, created the Pages project, and deployed the site with full HTTPS and SSL. Connected the contact form pipeline to the n8n webhook endpoint.

🔧

DevOps

Ran health checks on all routes, verified 200 responses across every page, and executed Lighthouse audits targeting 90+ Performance and 100 Accessibility.

Build Timeline

30 min

Scaffold

Astro + Tailwind project, global styles, Layout component

1 hr

Home page

Hero with tagline, 3-tier services preview, CTAs

1 hr

Services page

Tier comparison with pricing, includes/excludes, best-for

45 min

Case Studies

Overview page + Client Zero detail page (this one)

1 hr

Contact

Form with validation, Honcho webhook integration

Tech Stack

Astro 6

Static site generator — 432ms builds

Tailwind CSS 4

Utility-first styling with custom dark theme tokens

Docker

Containerized infrastructure — Hermes, Honcho, n8n, PostgreSQL

Honcho

AI-native memory — cross-session user modeling and lead capture

Cloudflare

DNS, Pages hosting, SSL, and Zero Trust tunnel

n8n

Workflow automation — contact form → database → agent dispatch

This is the stack used for Client Zero. We also support React, Next.js, Vue, AWS, Vercel, Mem0, and more — see all technologies.

Results

5

Pages delivered

432ms

Average build time

100%

Process documented

Every step — intake, scoping, task breakdown, build, and verification — was recorded in reusable templates. The docs/client-zero/ directory is the blueprint: clone it, fill in the blanks, and you have a complete client engagement. This is how ShakenAI Labs scales.

Want this for your business?

Our PM agent will scope your project with the same process we used for Client Zero.

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